Gang Fight and Shooting in Chicago <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Chicago has experienced 90 murders in August 2016, making it the deadliest month in Chicago in about 20 years.<br /><br />Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, has experienced more homicides this year than the bigger cities of Los Angeles and New York combined.<br /><br />The number of deaths here this year, 471, is about 50 percent higher than the same period a year earlier. Nonfatal shootings have risen at a similar rate. More than 2,300 shootings have taken place so far this year, mostly on the South and West Sides and most of them involving African-Americans.
